Empty Clip

Description

The poems of Empty Clip bore into the cultures of violence in the United States while candidly cross-firing upon the poets’ complicity and testifying on these cultures’ effects upon female body image and mental health. From a meditation about a bullet hole-animated PowerPoint presentation on campus shooters to the startled invective against an unprovoked dick pic, lyrics brood upon illness-driven suicidal thoughts to narratives about a slippery memory of childhood abuse, Emilia Phillips’s third poetry collection sears with the “angry love” of self, in order to find some truth that’s nevertheless “a broken bone that can’t be / set.”

Reviews & Interviews

Publishers Weekly- https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-629220-99-4

Tupelo Quarterly- https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/reviews/metaphor-traumatic-memory-in-emilia-phillips-empty-clip/

The Adroit Journal- https://theadroitjournal.org/2018/06/11/a-review-of-emilia-phillips-empty-clip-poetry/

About the author

Emilia Phillips is the author of two other poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Signaletics (2013) and Groundspeed(2016), and three chapbooks. Their poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. They’re an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Other books by Emilia Phillips

Additional information

Binding	ePDF, ePub, Paperback
Author(s)	Emilia Phillips
Keywords	body positivity; gun violence; ptsd; post-traumatic stress disorder; domestic violence; sexual assault; rape cultures; toxic masculinity; patriarchal culture; feminism; mental health; cultural criticism; mediated reality; technology; language studies; self-harm; bystander effect; suicidal ideation; suicide; bodily disassociation
Pub date	4/23/18